Billionaire company Jeff Bezos reveals plans to build space station, launch new race in space

Blue Origin, the space company of billionaire Jeff Bezos, has just revealed plans to build a new space station, called “Orbitan Reef”. This project will have cooperation with many other space companies with expected implementation from 2025 to 2030.

As described by Blue Origin, the private space station is designed to have an interior space roughly equivalent to that of the International Space Station, allowing 10 people to live as a “mixed-use business park.” fit” in space – as well as showing “uncanny hospitality” to space tourists.

The company’s main partner in this project is space company Sierra Space, in addition to Boeing, Redwire Space and Genesis Engineering.

After a race to design space vehicles between private companies, now the next destination is private space stations. A week before Blue Origin, space company Nanoracks also said it was working with Voyager Space, Lockheed Martin to develop a space station called Starlab. In addition, Axiom Space is also developing its own space station.

Promoting private firms to develop their own space stations is also part of NASA’s plan as the agency prepares to close the International Space Station. The facility costs NASA $4 billion a year and will be structurally complete by 2028. Earlier this year NASA said it was planning to award four contracts with each contract worth at least. $300 million for ideas to commercialize space in orbit.

The company has also submitted its proposal to NASA but still plans to continue pursuing its own project, said Brent Sherwood, Blue Origin’s vice president of development programs. What is NASA’s decision?

While the space travel needs of wealthy customers and scientific research teams are clear, there are still other customers. Still, Mr. Sherwood said it was time to examine these needs.

Refer to WSJ